Author: Jay McTighePublisher: ASCDISBN: 1416615059Size: 62.69 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 2776DownloadRead Online
Using essential questions can be challenging--for both teachers and students--and this book provides guidance through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement.

Author: David BoothPublisher: Pembroke Publishers LimitedISBN: 1551389282Size: 73.64 MBFormat: PDFView: 4226DownloadRead Online
What materials, resources, and technology would be appropriate for achieving
the goals? In their book Essential Questions: Opening Doors to StudentUnderstanding, Wiggins and McTighe propose using essential questions to
frame a teacher's key learning goals and to stimulate students' thinking and
inquiry. Some essential questions extend beyond the topic — e.g., “In what ways
does art reflect, as well as shape, culture?” Topical essential questions refer to a
specific unit of study ...

Author: Larissa PahomovPublisher: ASCDISBN: 1416619569Size: 56.48 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 2388DownloadRead Online
On a superficial level, identifying the essential questions for learning means
developing some kind of “hook” that will engage students when the material is
introduced. In inquiry-based education, it means identifying meaningful lines ... (
For a thorough description of how to write essential questions, consult the books
written by Wiggins and McTighe, especially Essential Questions: Opening Doorsto Student Understanding.) Getting students to create their own quality questions
is not an ...

Author: Michael D. KennedyPublisher: John Wiley & SonsISBN: 111833034XSize: 46.24 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 5957DownloadRead OnlineStudents on a journey to learn GIS with Professor Kennedy may feel like he is
taking the journey with them, offering them his sage advice each step of the way.
Professor Kennedy cares deeply for his students, and the detail of this care and
years of teaching GIS come through in this book. In it, he walks students through
the multitude of questions that come up daily in the classroom. His goal is to help students understand GIS concepts and learn GIS skills. It takes a master teacher
to ...

Author: Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPublisher: Modern Language Assn of AmerISBN:Size: 19.13 MBFormat: PDFView: 7267DownloadRead Online
Drawing on principles from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by
Design, the project was grounded in two essential questions: what is the vision of
"The Visionary"? And, whose vision is it? ... From the conversation that followed,
we moved into the apartment of the mysterious stranger, "an apartment whose
unparalleled splendor burst through the opening door with an actual glare,
making [the narrator] blind and dizzy with luxuriousness" (204). We reread this
section of ...